Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-11
NORTH CAROLINA.
CONTINUED HIGH WATER AID DAMAGE
TO CROPS.
Colonel Fellows and Something Of His
Rocord-Eews, Personal, and
Religious Notes.
Special telegram to tho Dispatch.


Special telegram to tho Dlspatchl
RALEIGH, N. c., November TO-
This was the great day ut the Fayette-
vile Fair. Senator Z. B. Vance, who is
so greatly beloved in the Cape Fear
section, delivered an address.
Rev. J. g. Schaidt was to-day formally
indicted into the Office Of president OF
the North Carolina Lutheran College, at
Mount Pleasant, Cabarras county, by
the president Of the synod and the trus-
tees.
Ensign Allen G. Rogers, of the navy,
a bright young officer, is here visiting
relatives. Midshipman Scales, nephew
OF the Governor, left Yesterday for New
York, whence he will sail for the lsthmus
Of Panama to join the Marion.
Special interest was felt here in the
election of Fellows in New York. Before
the war Fellows came South, and Mt the
outbreak joined Confederate regiment
He became captain. He was captured,
and. in company with 5000 other prison
ers, tried life for n long time at John
sons Island. Among the prisoners with
whom he was intimate were ex-Congress-
man Wharton J. Green Associate-,lus-
tice J. J. Davis, of the Supreme Court
and Colonel Thomas s. Kenan, clerk OF
the Supreme Court. Fellows was very
bright aud witty. and was n charming
speaker. He was a frequent speaker on
such occasions as the poor devils OF
prisoners managed to get up some fun.
On one occasion. Mt celebration OF
Washingtons birthday, Fellows was
making a grand speech when a sentry
made him stop very abruptly. All the
gentlemen above alluded to have very
pleasant recolectious Of Mr.. Fellows.
The commissioners of Craven county
have postponed until next Monday the
matter of ordering an election by the
people on the question OF o 100000
subscription to the railway from New
berne to Onslow county.
It is said that Bill Williams, the negro
thief, who murdered Luke Russell in
Craven county last week, has been seen
in Carteret county. Parties have gone
in pursuit OF him.
The Neuse river is now very high at
Kinston-higher, in fact, than in forty
five years, it is stated. Thousands OF
acres Of lowground are under water,
and much farm produce has either been
damaged by being covered with water or
swept away. 4 prominent farmer SAID
to-day that he believed the losses Of va
rious kinds by the rains, the damp wea-
Their, and the now famous freshet would
aggregate million dollars in the State.
The loss Of stock by drowning is quite
serious matter in some sections.
Work is to-day in progress on fourteen
railways in this State. Perhaps no other
southern State car beat this record. One
of these roads, about which little is
known by the general public, the
Wilmington, Chadbourn and Conway
boro. thirty-seven miles long. All save
six miles is completed.
The necessary steps have been taken
to secure n streetrailway for Whining
ton. and there is now nothing to prevent
the early commencement of work on 1t.
No less than 100 feet Of the embank-
ment Of the bridge over Tar river, on
the Nashville branch Of the Wilmington
and Weldon railroad, was swept away by
the recent freshet. A trestle is IN course
OF construction. and trains are expected
to cross by the end of this week.
Some of the newspapers are disposed
10 carp and cavl at Governor Scales.
When the white light is turned on his
administration it will be found to I've in
all ways honest, manly. aud high-toned.
The Governor has at all times endeayOr-
ed to do his duty to the fullest extent
He is as plucl1y as he is conscientious
marks line and hews TO i: His adj
ministration, it is as inst as it is proper
to say. will bear the fullest scrutiny. and
be will 60 upon record as a good Gov
ernor.
Thirty convicts were sent to the
Western North Carolina railroad yester-
dav.
Tant Grimes, a notorious negro bur
elar, was tried on capital charge at
Wilson this week. He escaped with
ten years sentence to the penitentiary.
The floods in Nash county have swept
away twenty-five bridges, seven OF which
were on Tar river.
The schooner which was capsized and
sank with all on board in Pasquotank
river week before last in the storm was
not the Ocean Bird, rs has been stated,
but the YineOak.
The branch Of the Wilmington and
Weldon railroad which is being extended
to Jacksonville will be further extended /
to Washington, y. c., it is learned.
On Tar river the steamer Beta, with
100 bales Of cotton Oh board, was found
10 be on fire. She was run ashore, and ,
everybody went to work to save her and /
the cargo. The efforts were successful. !
The boat was considerably injured, *
were tifty-four bales of cotton.
The annual meeting OF the stockhold- /
ers of the Raleigh aud Castor and the /
Raleigh and Augusta railways was held .
to-day. All old boards of directors were /
reelected and the same officers were also /
reelected.
Grand Master.of- Nasons Charles II.
Robinson has ordered special commune !
cation of the Grand Lodge to lay the
of the courthouse of Dur
ham county on the 18th instant An
address viii be delivered by Thomas W.
Mason, Of Northampton county.
The residence and out houses Of Charles
Stubs, in Robson county, have been
burned. Loss, about $1,000, with no
insurance.
". f. Davis, a native of Orange coun-
ty, but who for a year has lived in Chat
ham county, has elOped with the wife
and daughter Of John W. Boon, OF Cary,
Wake county. Davis leaves a wife and
six small children entirely destitute.